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We study compactifications of type IIA supergravity on six-dimensional manifolds with SU(2) structure and compute the low-energy effective action in terms of the non-trivial intrinsic torsion. The consistency with gauged \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) supergravity is established and the gauge group is determined. Depending on the structure of the intrinsic torsion, antisymmetric tensor fields can become massive.
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Danckaert, T., Louis, J., Martínez-Pedrera, D. et al. The \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) effective action of type IIA supergravity compactified on SU(2)-structure manifolds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 24 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2011)024
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